The European Union
This panel discussion was a part of the EUSC's 10th Anniversary Lecture Series I was attending for several years (some lectures are recorded HERE) but this is the first after the new 25-member enlargement. It was cosponsored also by the UN Association of NY.
Participants:(from left:) Hungarian UN Ambassador Laszio Molnar, Estonian UN Ambassador Merie Pajula, UN European Commission Chair Angel Carro Castrillo and Slovenian UN Ambassador Roman Kirnts

May 6th, 2004: At the NYC Columbia University - Czech Consulate General - SVU

New Europeans in the EU and Transatlantic Partners
This Panel discussion was organized by the East Central European Center of Columbia University together with the Czech Consulate General and the SVU (Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences) on 15th floor of the university's International building, 420 West 118th Street in the City of New York. Panel members: Milan Fryscak, Ales Pospisil, John K. Glenn, Josef Jarab, Jiri Zlatuska, John S. Micgiel, Vretislav Dancak.
Visegrad meeting of 4 at Kromeriz Castle 5/12 HERE

A million Dollars wouldn't please me more
Sometimes about in 1999 I filed a claim under the Holocaust compensation. About a year later I received a confirmation, that the case was investigated and I was incorporated into the class of "deportation and forced labor for a company". (Apparently the labor camp did not qualify under the "concentration camp, ghetto, or other place of confinement recognized under the German Foundation Act".)
* Just now I received an Award of DEM 5 000 (EUR 2556.463) with a check as First installment for DEM 2 500 (EUR 1278.23) US$ 1565.45.

Wed. April 28, Fri. 30 and Sun May 2d - At the Manhattan School of Music

Bohuslav Martinu: Mirandolina
The Manhattan School of Music presents US premier three act Mirandolina by Bohuslav Martinu. Opera is based on the Goldoni comedy La locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn) composed 1953-54 in Nice with a premier in 1959 in Prague's Smetanovo divadlo under direction of Vaclav Kaslik.

ATTACK ON CZECH JOURNALIST
The editor-in-chief of the prestigious independent weekly Respekt Tomas Nemecek is in hospital Bulovka after being attacked by unknown assailants on (January 17th) Saturday morning.